What’s the truth of The Salt Path?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
But the author's life-affirming account of how her husband's illness and losing their money and home put them on a 630-mile coastal walk has been called into question.
The Observer has claimed that not all of the couple's story stacks up - something strenuously denied by the author.Niall goes through the claims with Sky News arts and entertainment producer Jayson Mansaray and hears from a journalist who has interviewed Winn, Charlotte Lytton.
Producers: Emily Hulme and Soila Apparicio
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:04.0 | This time we're taking a look at the best-selling author Rainer Wyn, |
| 1:07.4 | and the claims that are books based on real life are anything but. |
| 1:12.2 | Before history was written, his name was carved in stone. |
| 1:17.6 | Now witness the legacy of Ramesses the Great. |
| 1:22.0 | 180 priceless treasures direct from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. |
| 1:27.4 | In the UK for the first and only time. |
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